Safety-catch for brooches, breastpins, &amp;c.



H. HILLS.

SAFETY CATCH FOR BROOGHES, BREASTPINS, 6w. APPLICATION FILED JULY 29,1913.

1,124,899, Patents) Jan. 12, 1915.

WITNESSES.-

ORNEY.

THE NORRIS PETERS C0,, PHOTG-LITHO.. WASHINGTON. D C.

HENRY HILLS, HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT.

SAFETY-CATCH FOR BROOCHES, BREASIPINS, 8w.

Specification of Letters Iatent.

Patented Jan. 12, 1915.

Application filed. July 29, 1913. Serial no. 781,807.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY HILLs, a citizen of the United States, and aresident of Hartford, in the county of Hartford and State ofConnecticut, have invented a new and Improved Safety-Catch for Brooches,Breastpins, &c., of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates more especially to means for securing the free endof the pin employed for attaching brooches, pins, and like articles ofjewelry in place, and an object of my invention, among others, is toprovide a device of this class that shall be neat in appearance, thatmay be easily manipulated, and that shall efiectively secure the pin.

One form of device embodying my invention and in the construction anduse of which the objects hereinabove set out, as well as others, may beattained, is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1is a side view of a brooch embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is an end viewof the same, scale enlarged, and with parts broken away to showconstruction.

In the accompanying drawings the numeral 5 indicates a brooch havingears 6 between which a pin 7 is pivotally secured in a manner common toarticles of jewelry, this pin being pointed in the usual way forinsertion through material composing garments, the pointed end of thepin being removably secured in its closed position.

My improved device embodies means for thus holding the pointed end ofthe pin in a manner to prevent accidental loosening, but at the sametime in a way to enable it to be readily loosened when desired, suchdevice including a U-shaped keeper secured in any desired manner to thebase of the article of jewelry and having a retaining post 8 and a latchbearing post 9. The end of the retaining post is preferably bent into ahorn 10 as shown in Fig. 2 of drawings underneath which the pin 7, as toa part at least, rests. The post 9 is hollow, providing a chamber for aretaining spring 11 which thrusts upward against a latch 12 pivotallymounted in a slot in the post 9 and having its end 13 resting against orin proximity to the horn 10. This latch is bent to form a handle 14resting, when the latch is in its closed position, against the side ofthe post 9, the spring 11 pressing upwardly against a spring seat soformed on the under side of the latch that the handle 14 will be pressedagainst the side of the post, thus forming a stop to limit the swingingmovement of the latch and retain the pin securely in position. It willthus be impossible, without destroying the fastening, to force the pinfrom the hold of the latch, but by placing the thumb or finger nailunderneath the handle 1 1 the latch may be readily moved to position topermit the pin to be disengaged.

The construction is such that the catch may be made of a size'peculiarlyin keeping with articles of this class, that is, it may be made so smallthat it will not be unsightly or bulky in appearance. The pin can not heaccidentally disengaged and the handle is little liable to beaccidentally caught and moved so that the pin will be released, but atthe same time it is in such position that it may be readily manipulatedfrom this position.

While I have shown and described herein a preferred form of latch forcarrying out my invention, this may be departed from to a greater orlesser-extent and yet be within the spirit and intent of the inventionas defined by the appended claims, and which invention is therefore notlimited to the exact construction herein described.

I claim:

1. In an article of jewelry, in combination with a pin pivotally mountedat one end, a keeper having a recess to receive the point of the pin,and a pivotally mounted L-shaped latch having one branch closing saidrecess to retain the pin in place and its opposite branch restingagainst the side of the keeper to prevent outward movement of saidoverlying branch.

2. In an article of jewelry, in combina tion with a base and a keeperprojecting outwardly from the back surface thereof, and having a recess,a pin pivotally mount ed on the base with one end to be located in saidrecess, and an L-shaped lever pivotally mounted on the keeper with onebranch overlying and closing the mouth thereinto and the other branchextending along the side of the keeper toward the base and restingagainst the keeper to prevent outward movement of the first mentionedbranch.

3. In an article of jewelry, a base, a pin secured to one end of thebase, a keeper secured to and projecting from the back surface of thebase and having a recess to rebranch, and means for yieldingly holdingceive the end of said pin, an L-shaped latch the latch with one branchin position to pivotally mounted on the keeper and havclose said recess.

ing one branch closing said recess and the other branch extending alongand resting against the side of the keeper to prevent outward movementof the first mentioned HENRY HILLS.

Witnesses:

ARTHUR B. JENKINS, ANNE E. OBRIE Copies of this patent may be obtain dfor five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of PatentsWashington, D. 0.

